Feb. 25, 2009, The New York Times article about the Supreme Court ruling in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum that a Utah city park did not need to put up a monument to a small Utah-based religion (Summum) just because it had a monument to the Ten Commandments.

J. Lawrence Aber is professor of applied psychology and public policy at New York University in New York City. He is an expert on child development and social policy who researches the effect of poverty and violence on children. He is also former director of the National Center for Children in Poverty.

The National Center for Children in Poverty is at Columbia University in New York City. Renée Wilson-Simmons is director.

Donna Schaper is the senior pastor at Judson Memorial Church in New York, N.Y., and co-author of Labyrinths From the Outside In: Walking to Spiritual Insight – A Beginner’s Guide.

Gabrielle Roth is the author of Sweat Your Prayers: The Five Rhythms of the Soul. She co-founded The Moving Center, a place for dance and movement, in New York City.

The Rev. Robert VerEecke is a Catholic priest and pastor of The Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York, N.Y. He has written about liturgical dance and dance as prayer and leads workshops on embodied prayer in the Boston area.

The Bertram M. Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty is at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y. Anita Lightburn is director and associate professor of social service.

The Dervish Retreat Center in Spencer, N.Y., holds classes in the whirling dance of the dervish, a form of Sufi prayer.

David A. Harris is executive director of the American Jewish Committee, a nonpartisan organization that conducts an annual survey of American Jews.